Clay ball disintegrator



Oct. 20, 1931.

Filed July 5, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Oct. 20, 1931.

L. O. BATES CLAY BALI DI S I NTE'GRATOR 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed July 5, 1930 L. 0151mm Patented Oct. 20, 1931 1 LEE OflBATES, OF DALLAS, TEXAS CLAY BALL DISINZTEGRATO'R I Application filed July 3,

This invention relates to a disintegrating apparatus particularly for use in compressing or disintegrating clay balls or other soft foreign matter from pit run gravel or raw material with the aid of water.

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It is particularly aimed to provide a construction which functions before the screening and grading of the gravel so that the water used in connection with such operations aids in removing the disintegrated or crushed clay or foreign matter.

In addition it is aimed to provide a novel construction wherein the Water is discharged into the disintegrator without undue splashing and wherein the rotating disintegrating member or members will not unduly splash or eject thematerial. j

The more specific objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating an operative embodiment.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the disintegrator,

Figure 2 is a detail section taken on the line 22 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a side elevation 'of the disin-' tegrator, and

Figure 4 is a cross sectional view taken on the line H of Figure 1; I

Referring specifically to the drawings, a suitable trough is. provided as at 10 preferably having separable upper and lower sections 11 and 12 bolted or otherwise secured together asv at 13. Such bolts pass throughthe flanges 14 of reinforcing angle members 15 which border the meeting-edges of the see- .A frame 16 composed of suitably connected angle members has side elements 17 there of bolted or otherwise fastened as at 18 to the base section 12. From the other members of the frame-16 suitable bearings 19 are bolted or otherwise fastened at 20 in. which shafts 21' are suitablyjournaled. The shafts 21 have suitable disintegrating or crushin elements ments, concaves 23 and 24 are provide the latter extending to the top of the trough.

1980. Serial No. 405,730.

Such concaves comprise grooved members 25 i and 26, in the grooves of which, slats 27 and 28, respectively, are slidably and removably disposed.

The trough is covered at the top for the most 'part by a roof 29 but is uncovered at 30 so that the pit run gravel or material may be fed into the device through such opening and fed for instance by a conventional conveyor as at '31.

Water is delivered into the trough through tion 11 at the outlet end of the device, at

which end, one or more discharge pipes 39 communicate with the trough.

As a result of the constructon described, the pitrun gravel or raw material is delivered by the conveyor 31 through the opening 30 pntothe adjacent disintegrator. At

the same time, water from any suitable source is supplied through the pipe 32. The "combmed ,action of the water and the disintegratorsserves to disintegrate or pulverize the clay balls or other foreign matter in the gravel and the gravel then passes to the next disintegrator and at the same time receiving similar treatment, and finally being discharged with the water through the pipe or pipes 39. The'water; it will be realized carries off the pulverized matter in solution or as a mixture.

The material discharging through. the pipes 39/ passes to the usual screens and graders at which the water and foreign matter is removed from the gravel by the additional water which is sprayed onto the same at the graders and screens. c, It will be realized that the different plates 36, 37 and 38, prevent undue splashing of the water and ejections of water and gravel from the trough, causing the same under the action of the disintegrators to be moved downwardly and forwardly through the pipes 39.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention 1. A disintegrator of the class described comprisin a trough, a disintegrator operable thereln, said trough having a top wall open at a portionthereof to form a filling opening, means to supply water into the trough, plate means ad aoent the latter -means carried by the roof of the trough to avoid undue splashing of the water and ejection of the contents of the trough, said trough having a discharge pipe, and a guard plate above said discharge pipe and within the trough.

2. A disintegrator of the class described comprising a troughya disintegrator operable therein, said trough having a top wall open at a portion thereof to form a filling opening, means to supply water into the trough, plate means adjacent the latterv means carried b the roof of the trough to avoid undue sp ashing of the water and ejection of the contents of the trough, said trough having a discharge pipe, a guard plate above said discharge pipe and within the trough, a concave within the trough, and said disintegrator coacting with the concave.

3. A device of the class described comprising a trough, a frame surrounding and having two members thereof secured to the trough, the other members being spaced from the trough, hearings on the last mentioned mem, hers, shafts journaled in said bearings adapt- .ed for rotation, and means on sald shafts within the trough forming disintegrators, concaves coacting with the disintegrators, a

top for the trough terminating short of one wall thereof to provide a filling opening,

plates depending from the top "adjacent the disintegrators, a water supply pipe having nozzles discharging adjacent said plates, one

of the'disintegrators being arranged on an axis above the other, discharge pipes leading from the lower end of the trough, and a guard plate extending inwardly from said end of the trough aboverthe discharge pipes.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. LEE 0. BATES. 

